Monday, September 10, 2007

Ukranians?

Never would I have believed it. I am in a picture with soldiers from the Ukraine! So what? Well, only that up until about a decade ago these guys were our mortal enemies. Crazy. I gotta say though these are some cool guys. They were pretty laid back. Real friendly and very knowledgeable. It was kinda funny though, they have a classic Hollywood eastern European accent. It's really just the way they talk. The senior of the three just cracked us up. We met with them for a bit on business and to introduce me as the new guy. At one point one of them passes around a paper so we can right down our contact info. One of the officers hands this senior guy the paper and he didn't like how he had it done because there was just like a name no info, so he says a few things in Ukrainian to him. Then in a perfect Hollywood movie accent he says "Who's 'dis guy, here. Yeah 'dis guy. Who's 'dis guy?" So were sitting there all trying not to laugh, and he looks over and says something like. " Yeah. like movie huh? 'dis guy". Man we just start cracking up. , it was hilarious.The right three guys on the top row are Ukrainian Officers. They came down to give one of our soldiers an award for all the help he has given them while he was here. The "awardee" and I are on the left of the first row. He's is going home soon, so we will probably see more of this, which is cool.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dave, Not surprised a bit! What the heck after meeting the Buddist Monk at the coffee shop in Degu, anything goes. Miss ya! Mike